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SpaceX Crew Dragon launches first commercial crewed mission

Commercial Crew Program · May 30, 2020
Commercial Crew Program
Mission
Commercial Crew Program
Series
NASA
Venue
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Date
May 30, 2020
Space Agency
NASA
Nickname
SpaceX Crew Dragon launches first commercial crewed mission
Crew
Doug Hurley
Bob Behnken

The Demo-2 mission carried NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon. It was the first crewed orbital launch from U.S. soil since the Shuttle's 2011 retirement and the first ever by a commercial spacecraft.

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